Ident Engine
Glenn has taken Google's Social Graph API, YQL and various parsers, and he's wrapped it all up in one JavaScript library. The demos are mind-boggingly impressive.
Link tags: social_graph
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Identify: Google People With Two Keystrokes - ReadWriteWeb
A nice overview of Glenn's XFN Firefox plug-in.
Portal Me
A person-specific portal generated using Google's Social Graph API. And it's less than 5K!
Identify - Firefox entension | Madgex Lab
Okay, I know I said "holy freakin' crap!" the last time I linked to one of Glenn's Social Graph API experiments but now he's gone and created a Firefox plug-in: press alt-i and you can see the social graph for anyone's site. Holy freakin' crap!
Social Graph Explorer | Madgex Lab
Holy freaking crap! Glenn's Social Graph Explorer is bloody brilliant!
Digital Web Magazine - Portable Social Networks, The Building Blocks Of A Social Web
Ben has written a superb article outlining the hows and whys of distributed social networks with hCard and XFN, finishing with an inspiring call to arms.
Social networks may be imaginary | The Register
My new motto is "The Social Graph is a Spherical Cow."
Giant Global Graph | Decentralized Information Group (DIG) Breadcrumbs
TIm Berners-Lee explains what the "graph" part of "social graph" means. I'm still not keen on the term but I really love the idea (although I also disagree about the building blocks required today).